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The Town of Delbarton’s election is three weeks away and questions have already been raised. Mayoral candidate John Ramey has challenged the votes of nearly 500 voters. The town only has 200-225 homes. Ramey told us that he challenged the votes of residents after he was given three different lists of voters’ registration from the Mingo County Clerks Office. Ramey was given the computer print out of the registered voters that vote in the Lee District. Ramey sat down with nine other Delbarton residents and studied the lists. They came up with 499 names of people that they believed to be ineligible to vote in the June 12th election. Representatives from the county clerks’ office told us that 15 people have came into there office verifying there residency in the town of Delbarton. The county says that they can’t breakdown the list of registered voters in the county to a list of voters that reside in the municipality. The reason is due to the new computer system that all 55 counties had to install. A spokesperson with the Secretary of State Office says there is a way to re-configure the list from the county to a municipality list. However, only a handful of counties have done so thus far. The Secretary of State says that it is the responsibility of the county clerk to provide a poll book which obtains the list of eligible voters. It is the responsibility of the poll workers to make sure that only eligible voters cast there ballot the poll worker can challenge a vote. Here is how the poll workers obtain there list of registered voters. The clerk will run off a printed list of voters in the Lee District. Then the poll workers will study the list and decide which residents are eligible to vote in Delbarton’s election.